Online video genres and student creation (Cambridge Conversations)

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It is important to consider what’s new with video – more specifically, how online video has blurred traditional divisions and created new genres. As well as traditional genres such as romance, comedy or biography, we now need to consider new genres such as video memes, bloopers, how to guides, mash-ups etc. As more and more of these new styles of videos appear on sites like YouTube, students want to copy and imitate them.

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Webinar: Help teens build vocabulary and express themselves confidently, February 16

[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 5 | February 8, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036]

To develop speaking skills, teenage learners need to practise speaking a great deal and over an extended period of time. But real improvement requires more than just practice – it requires learners to expand their language abilities: grammar, lexis, pronunciation and so on. Chief amongst these is lexis – individual words, multi-word items, lexical chunks and fixed phrases – since most breakdowns in language production are caused by lack of access to the right word or phrase. In this webinar, Jeff Stranks will look at the relationship between lexical competence and spoken fluency, and suggest materials and activities that can be used to help learners increase their lexical range and thus become better and more confident conversationalists in English.

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Top 10 Tools for Expression in the EFL Classroom (OUP ELT Blog)

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Focusing on pronunciation and writing skills, equip your class with the techniques and skills to make telling their stories in English less of a challenge.

‘The Writing Paradox’ – Gareth Davies explores a quick writing exercise to overcome the common hurdle – ‘My students don’t want to write’.

Insight Top 10 Tips: Writing – Useful, practical tips for making writing accessible in the language learning classroom, both as a creative exercise, and more formally.

Ideas to get your students writing – A piece on helping to break down the barriers around writing tasks with quick practical exercises for the classroom.

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